OECD countries are increasingly referred to as "network societies". This prompts questions about educational networks: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and professionalism? Some predict the demise of large, slow-changing...

Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of...

Two New Yorks : New York City, 1945-1965 -- The rise of community -- "Black" values, "white" values : race and culture in New York City during the 1960s -- The Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control experiment -- The strikes -- Like strangers : the third strike and beyond -- Culture war --...